At the recent solo-exhibition of Sung Hwan Kim at the van Abbe Museum I encountered the following set up:
In case my low-quality phone photograph isn't clear enough, what we have here are two rectangular black objects made of wood. They are of near-identical height and placed on the floor about 1,5 meters in front of a screen that is showing a video.
What is strange about this is that one is marked 'Please take a seat', while on the other it's written to 'Please don't sit'. The first is meant as a bench to sit on and watch a video, the second is a box that houses a projector.
To include two almost identical objects with opposite functions is such an absurdly stupid decision that it could have easily been the premise for a Monthy Phython sketch.
